{"id":11171,"date":"2025-04-28T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=11171"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:26:41","slug":"easter-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2025\/04\/28\/easter-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year for Easter, we wanted to do something bigger. Something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the day that Jesus rose from the dead, defeated death, and did so all for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shouldn’t this be the Super Bowl Sunday of events for Christians?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want it to be. Since I had been working a bit extra, they told me to take a few days off, so I took Good Friday and the following Monday off. I consider it a test run, and if we can do something like this in the future, we will attempt to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our weekend was spent – as you can imagine… at church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, we had the Good Friday service. Saturday was the Easter egg hunt at the church, and Sunday was Easter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I planned for these things. What I didn’t plan for was the arguing and fighting. If we do anything over the entire weekend, it will be the mess-making and the lack of caring. That was a bit much. It came from the two older kiddos, but mainly in a flex of power more than anything. They both like attending church and were looking forward to it for a while. They sensed the same in us and said, Let’s cash in on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above you will see a picture of my beautiful wife walking with Ezra. They matched pretty perfectly. The boys mainly match their momma. Ezra and Luca wore blue- Elijah wore a half-blue, half-red shirt to match everyone. Ara was going to wear blue, but when she saw I was wearing red, she changed into a red dress instead so that I wouldn’t be alone and had someone to match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we finished church, we took a trip to Chang’s Mongolian Grill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to say, I wasn’t a fan. I compare this food to YC’s Mongolian BBQ in Phoenix. It doesn’t compare. The kids didn’t enjoy it, which made Sky and me feel bad afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything, we know what we won’t have for dinner in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the month has been mostly quiet. Ara had a sleepover, and after staying up all night, she got herself grounded after making some less-than-desirable choices due to lack of sleep. That pretty much rounded out the month, and weekends and evenings were spent cleaning\/picking up around the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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